modernisation Articles

Pain, progress and pioneers The Last Word is back! This time with 20 per cent more intellectual content, a 10 per cent reduction in sarcasm and no mention of Super Tuesday. Burn after reading But a word of warning. Before you read further, I'm currently 100/1 on...

Labour needs to talk about aspiration without the jargon ‘Aspiration?’ demanded John Prescott on the Today programme, with scarcely concealed contempt, ‘What the ‘eck is that?’ If he had only meant that he was seeking clarification on the meaning of the term, I would...

Dear Progress, Like me I know this short missive does not find you well. Our once great party is in a mess and is not showing sufficient signs of knowing it, let alone doing something about it. But why should anyone at Progress listen to anything from someone at...

On Saturday I chaired a Progress conference session on Labour and the unions asking how we set about modernising the link. Blessed with a superb roll call of speakers and a packed room our debate was lively, pragmatic, honest and pretty much unanimous; the current...